This blog provides supplementary thoughts and ideas to the www.bridgematters.com site. If you haven't seen the main site, there is a lot there including the Martel and Rodwell interviews, photos, and articles. This blog is focused on advancing bridge theory by discussing the application of new ideas. All original content is copyright 2009 Glen Ashton.

Monday, June 22, 2009

Tiny Meckwell

You can watch Meckwell and all the other stars of the Vugraph on a phone, as long as you don't mind them being a touch tiny. Here's one of this morning's matches on my new iphone:

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.Now for comparison, here is the iphone and part of the monitor running BBO on Windows:

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Here is the iphone with BBO running in a browser, and I'm using Google's Chrome browser since it is quite fast:

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You might notice that Meckwell's teammates are going for down 5 doubled, and we will discuss that not tiny -1400 in an upcoming post.

I think it is safe to predict that the one and only reason we would have for making this change would be if a major tournament organizer (the WBF for example) said "introduce a delay or you won't be able to broadcast our events in the future".

I love BBO vugraphs, even on the phone if I'm away from a monitor, and if takes a delay so be it, but this will not come close to solving the security issues with wireless technology prevailing everywhere.